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Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005) Movie Review
If “Azumi 2: Death or Love” does anything, it’s convince fans of the series that Ryuhei Kitamura, the director of the 2003 original, was one heck of a director. Surely, we thought while watching...
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Evil’s City (2005) Movie Review
Here’s an advice to would-be horror filmmakers: never, ever start your film off with a quote from the bible. This is, without a doubt, the single biggest clich’ for a horror movie since the...
Read More »The Eye 10 (2005) Movie Review
More “Scary Movie” than “The Amityville Horror”, the Pang Brothers’ “The Eye 10″, the latest entry into their highly successful “The Eye” series, is a surprisingly funny comedy with some decent frights thrown in...
Read More »Star Wars 3: Revenge of the Sith (2005) Movie Review
The most consequential moments in “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” for those already familiar with how the movie will end is its final 10 minutes, when the film deftly bridges the three prequels...
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Dead Meat (2004) Movie Review
Zombie films from countries not called “America” are rare, but all that seemed to change when the Japanese, following in the footsteps of the Italians from two decades ago, decided to give undead cinema...
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Sci-Fighter (aka X-Treme Fighter, 2004) Movie Review
It’s really quite amazing how a movie like “Sci-Fighter” managed to get made in 2004, much less found its way to an audience via a DVD release in mid-2005. The film is hopelessly anachronistic,...
Read More »Vampires 3: The Turning (2005) Movie Review
As second sequels to moderately popular horror films go, “Vampires: The Turning”, the second addition to John Carpenter’s 1998 original starring James Woods, isn’t so bad that fans of the series should shun it....
Read More »Divergence (2005) Movie Review
Less an action film than a mild mystery with heavy doses of mental imbalance, Benny Chan’s “Divergence” has more in common with the director’s previous films like “Heroic Duo” (which also starred “Divergence’s” Ekin...
Read More »Another Public Enemy aka Public Enemy 2 (2005) Movie Review
It’s open to debate why director Woo-Suk Kang (“Silmido”) has made a sequel to his popular 2002 crime film “Public Enemy” by bringing back the same star, but have him be a completely new...
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Firefly: Unaired Pilot (2003) TV Review
In the very narrow world of rabid fanboys, Joss Whedon’s name gets uttered with the same reverence as Bruce Campbell (of the “Evil Dead” movies). Having been responsible for two of the more influential...
Read More »Red Eye (2005) Movie Review
It probably comes as no surprise to regular readers of the site that “Red Eye”, the latest horror film out of South Korea, makes almost no effort to stride beyond the confines of its...
Read More »Seven Swords (2005) Movie Review
Rumor has it that the original cut for Tsui Hark’s wuxia epic “Seven Swords” originally ran over four hours, before it was trimmed down to 2 hours and 30 minutes for cinematic consumption. “Seven...
Read More »Sahara (2005) Movie Review
The action-adventure film “Sahara” is the kind of movie Hollywood could do with one hand tied behind its back, blindfolded, and with one of its legs broken due to a car accident on the...
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Forbidden Warrior (2004) Movie Review
Some days it sucks to be a movie critic. And then there are days when you have to sit through pointless, nonsensical junk like Jimmy Nickerson’s “Forbidden Warrior”, a movie so Godawful that if...
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The Purifiers (2003) Movie Review
“How the hell does six kids with kung fu police a city block, much less their section of a major city, which when totaled, must be hundreds of blocks?” That was the question that...
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Cold and Dark (2004) Movie Review
Besides being one of the rare British horror films to incorporate a plot that is as “out there” as some of its American independent brethrens, Andrew Goth’s “Cold and Dark” is of interest to...
Read More »House of Fury (2005) Movie Review
The Hong Kong movie industry continues to confound with the release of Stephen Fung’s “House of Fury”. With all the financial woes they’ve had of late (the seemingly unstoppable commercial success of Stephen Chow’s...
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Sin City (2005) Movie Review
When I first heard that Robert Rodriguez was going to make a “Sin City” movie, my first reaction went something along the lines of, “Yeah, right, it’s impossible. They’ll never be able to duplicate...
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Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong (2004) Movie Review
If your interest lies in Hong Kong Cinema of old, the new documentary “Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong” is what you’re looking for. “Chop Socky” is an hour-long, made-for-TV documentary that has assembled quite...
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